International Organisation of Good Templars
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The International Organisation of Good Templars (formerly known as the International Order of Good Templars and the Independent Order of Good Templars) describe themselves as "the largest international non-governmental organisation working in the field of temperance".
Their base is in Sweden, a country which has had very strict alcohol policies and laws in the past.
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[edit] History
The history of IOGT - but not that of temperance or total abstinence organizations - begins with the establishing of the Knights of Jericho and a lodge of it in Oriskany Falls (then known as Castor Hollow), a village near Utica, New York, USA, in 1850. Shortly afterwards, it was visited by 13 members of another group established in Utica. Under the leadership of Wesley Bailey, it was decided that these two lodges form the Order of Good Templars. As thus, the name of "Good Templar" came into existence in Utica 1851. The motto of the renamed organization was "Friendship, Hope and Charity".
Over the next year, 14 additional lodges were established. By the summer of 1852, a convention was called in Utica to establish a Grand Lodge. During the convention, a dispute broke out between Wesley Bailey and Leverett Coon, who had established a lodge in Syracuse. Coon left the meeting and his lodge, Excelsior, supported his actions by renaming the organization Independent Order of Good Templars, with the motto altered to "Faith, Hope and Charity". After this faltering start, the Order grew in the United States and in Canada.
In 1868, Joseph Malins returned to his native England and held a meeting in a small chapel in Cregoe Street, Birmingham. From this small gathering IOGT was to spread to the continent of Europe and to the rest of the world. Within three years the Order spread to Ireland, Wales, Australia, Malta, New Zealand, France, Portugal, South Africa, Bermuda, Belgium and East India. Another five years later (by 1876), the Order had established itself in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Madras, British Honduras, British Guyana, Jamaica, Malacca, China, Japan, Sierra Leone, St. Helena, Argentina, Trinidad, Grenada and the Bahamas. This was followed by lodges in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Germany and Jerusalem, and from 1900 and onwards in Holland, Burma, Nigeria and Panama.
[edit] Member organizations
As listed on the website of IOGT International.
- Belgium - IOGT Belgium
- Bosnia-Herzegovina - LINK
- Bulgaria - Free Youth Bulgaria
- Burundi - IOGT Burundi
- Croatia - Klub Lijecenih Alkoholikar Opcine, Klub Mladih Juvente
- Czech Republic - IOGT Czech Republic
- Denmark - IOGT Denmark
- Estonia - Juvente Estonia, IOGT Estonia, Estonian Temperance Union
- Faroe Islands - IOGT Faroe Islands
- Finland - IOGT Finland, FSNU-MHF, Raittiuden Ystävät ry., Sinuli Finland
- Gambia - IOGT Gambia
- Germany - IOGT Germany, Juvente Germany, FORUT Germany
- Ghana - IOGT Ghana
- Guinea-Bissau - IOGT Guinea-Bissau
- Iceland - IOGT Iceland, IOGT Junior in Island, Icelandic Temperance Youth
- India - ADIC India, Amardeep, Madras Social Service Guild, Brain Society, Temperance Association of Orissa
- Italy - GGPF Italy
- Kenya - IOGT Kenya
- Latvia - JAF Latvia, IOGT Latvia
- Lithuania - Lithuanian Temperance Society, Lithuanian Temperance Youth Federation
- Netherlands - ANDO
- Norway - IOGT Norway, Juvente Norway, IOGT Junior Organisation, DNT, FORUT Norway
- Poland - IOGT ADIC Poland
- Portugal - Sociedade Anti-Alcoólica Portuguesa
- Russia - The NAN Foundation, Youth Antidrug Federation
- Senegal - IOGT Senegal, ASPAT
- Sierra Leone - IOGT Sierra Leone
- Slovakia - IOGT – Healthy Lifestyle Society, NOM
- South Africa - IOTT South
- Sri Lanka - ADIC Sri Lanka, Temperance Youth Organisation of Sri Lanka, Temperance Youth Club of Sri Lanka, All Ceylon Young Men's Muslim Association Conference, Non-Violent Direct Action Group, Sri Lanka Temperance Association, Lanka Jatilka Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
- Sweden - IOGT-NTO, Ungdomens Nykterhetsförbund, JUNIS, Nykterhetsrörelens Scoutförbund
- Switzerland - IOGT Switzerland, Juvente Switzerland, KiM Switzerland
- Tanzania - SOBER Tanzania
- Thailand - IOGT Thailand
- Turks & Caicos Islands - Success Lodge No.1 I.O.G.T.
- Uganda - SOBER Uganda
- Ukraine - Youth Temperance Movement "Better", Ukrainian Society for Temperance & Health
- United Kingdom - IOGT England and Wales, IOGT Scotland, National Youth Council of IOGT England
- USA - IOGT-USA
- Vietnam - IOGT Vietnam
- Others - PCDP-Cambodia, Together against Drugs, Sri Lanka Interactive Media Group, International Academy of Sobriety, EGTYF Macedonia, Atmosphere F, NADA India Foundation
[edit] Further reading
- European Good Templar Youth Federation
- Temperance organizations
- David M. Fahey, "How the Good Templars Began: Fraternal Temperance in New York State", Social History of Alcohol Review, Nos. 38-39 (1999)
- David M. Fahey, "Temperance & Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars" (University Press of Kentucky, 1996).
